CONCORD 
1892 
July 12 
Young 
Grosbeaks 
Young 
Cuckoos 
Birds not 
silenced 
by 
extreme 
beat 
Carolina 
Dove 
In the early morning a brood of young Grosbeaks 
with their father spent nearly an hour in our elms. The 
old bird sang brief snatches of his song. The young called 
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uu-e , pee-wer and pde-er. They sat for minutes at a time 
nearly motionless among the foliage and were hard to see. 
A Yellow-billed Cuckoo also appeared,followed by 
a single young which sat for some time on a stone wall 
(when the parent fed it) calling co-co-co or cow-cow-cow , 
never more nor less than three notes at a time, the tone 
very like that of the adult bird and perfectly diagnostic 
of the species. This youngster cocked his little tail in 
the same peculiar, automaton-like way as the old bird. 
In the afternoon I sat under the elms for an hour 
or more. The air was sultry, even in the shade, and the 
sun burned like fire. All Ground the horizon lay a bank of 
bluish haze like smoke. Birds were hot apparently much 
affected by this extreme heat. Song Sparrows, Vireos, 
Grass Finches, and Robins singing. Swifts and Swallows 
flying rather high, among the former seven Eave Swallows, 
keeping near one another in a loose flock. The chink ing 
of Bobolinks heard at intervals overhead and two of the 
birds seen flying high. A Carolina Dove which looked like 
a young bird and which is the first I have seen this year 
anywhere outside the Ball's Hill region and in Lincoln, 
flew slowly over the cornfield in front of the house at 
about 5 P. M. 
